Good night, Intel Macs

[mlayer]

News is coming out that the unnamed Mac OS 27 will drop support for the final Intel Macs that still officially support Tahoe:

MacBook Pro (16-inch, 2019)
MacBook Pro (13-inch, 2020, Four Thunderbolt 3 ports)
iMac (2020)
Mac Pro (2019)

If I didn't already have a recently acquired iMac Pro, I might check for a nice deal on one of these. The Mac Pro, which is still in the depreciation stage, is still interesting architecturally if not functionally. The 2020 13" MBP or 2019 16" MBP might catch my eye as I don't have any touchbar Macs in my stable and these models at least have good keyboards.

One other thing that could be considered as a factor is Windows 11 support. There's a process to make that work. Is it worth it? I haven't tried, though my work PC experience with Win 11 makes me think it's not worth my time or effort.

 

[BSDnostalgia]

The Mac Pro, which is still in the depreciation stage, is still interesting architecturally if not functionally.

I feel that it would be a bad precedent to drop distributing security patches so soon. There are plenty of people who still use those boxes functionally.

Except for the security aspect for people still needing that functionality, I'm glad to see x86 go. Apple Silicon has so much more performance at any given level of power consumption/heat.